Example sentences of "as it [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The national state , as it took shape in Western Europe , controlled a well-defined , continuous territory ; it was relatively centralized ; it was clearly differentiated from other organizations ; and it reinforced its claims by gradually acquiring a monopoly of the means of physical coercion within its territory . |
| 2 | Pilot David Moore from Gloucestershire was at the controls of the forty seven year old Spitfire as it took part in an air display near Manchester on Saturday.The fighter plane looped the loop but as it neared the ground it plummeted down , bursting into flames.Firefighters were on the scene immediately , and confirmed that the pilot was dead.David Moore , who was 47 , flew with the Royal Navy for ten years before joining Rolls Royce as a pilot in the mid 1970s.He flew the company 's executives around Europe … but in his spare time he enjoyed piloting vintage planes like the Spitfire , which was owned by Rolls Royce.Today at the family 's home near Stroud , David Moore 's widow was coming to terms with the tragedy : |
| 3 | A fire was started on the ground floor , and , as it took hold , they ransacked offices and piled furniture and documents on a bonfire in the square outside . |
| 4 | Few people noticed the event as it took place in an uninhabited part of Kamchatcka and caused no known casualties . |
| 5 | Although the enclosure movement in all these forms was the last great revolution in the English landscape , radically changing much of the countryside as it took place , it also gave us a landscape which is aesthetically much more pleasing to most people . |
| 6 | This however was no ordinary wedding as it took place on the Healthcare annual incentive to Mexico . |
| 7 | The government of President Hastings Kamuzu Banda came under increasing pressure from Western governments to improve its human rights record as it took action to arrest the pro-democracy campaigner , Chakufwa Chihana , and to expel Mgr John Roche , Roman Catholic bishop-elect of Mzimba . |
| 8 | From some different world , she heard the bird 's song cease abruptly in mid-trill , and the startled flutter of its wings as it took flight , followed by the soft rustle of a breeze through the bushes . |
| 9 | The turbine had arrived from the works , and also the alternator , which by now I had learned was merely another name for a generator , though of a fancier kind as it made AC whereas a generator made only DC . |
| 10 | Rex felt the knee as it made contact with his groin . |
| 11 | He was interested in the music industry only insofar as it affected Virgin . |
| 12 | They accepted that the state had a duty to uphold morality and that private morality ought to be subject to the law as it affected society . |
| 13 | QUALITY SOFTWARE PRODUCTS EMPHASISES QUALITY AS IT DISCUSSES PATHFINDER PROSPECTUS FOR FULL LISTING |
| 14 | There were some suggestions that a lower rate of population increase , from the decline in the UK birth rate after 1964 , was a cause of economic decline , as it reduced demand for the purchase of consumer durables . |
| 15 | She was making for the telephone box outside the Broken Dolls Hospital when she heard the puttering of a motorcycle engine as it reduced speed in the gutter behind her . |
| 16 | All together , elbows in ribs , knees in calves , packed tight and swaying with the motion of the train as it struggled north . |
| 17 | In old accounting jargon , the left-hand column in the record of customers ' trading details was nicknamed ‘ query street ’ , as it contained question marks against the names of all those whose creditworthiness was suspect . |
| 18 | The car joined the evening traffic as it swung south-east towards Moscow . |
| 19 | In fact it is now widely recognized that some consumption expenditure of this type , in so far as it combats malnutrition , should be considered as equivalent to investment . |
| 20 | The world is rejecting non-productive socialism as it rejected feudalism . |
| 21 | Twenty pleasant minutes retraced the morning 's steps and I stood beside the Land Rover waving goodbye and listening to the blue van 's familiar toots as it continued north . |
| 22 | The CPA 1987 is similar to the SGA 1979 and the SGSA 1982 with respect to merchantibility and fitness for purpose , as it imposes liability only on those acting " in the course of a business " . |
| 23 | Modigliani and Miller argue that this situation can not persist for long as it offers arbitrage profits to the individual investor . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , the choice of a high shoulder angle is entirely valid as it maximizes performance . |
| 25 | Cos it I used to get know when it , when it , soon as it goes tick , tick , tick , tick , ti ti ti ti ti ti tick ! |
| 26 | As the line is paid out , and the kite ascends on the wind gradient with improving lift as it gains altitude , so the additional weight and drag of the line compensates , rather like the ballast on the keel of a yacht . |
| 27 | These two distinctive features are , of course , there for a reason : they allow the bird to capture much more air , which gives it a much better pushing force as it gains height . |
| 28 | The wind was rising again , mocking the arrival of spring as it lashed rain against the windows . |
| 29 | The company 's only criticism is of Destiny 's Moolit toolkit that does n't provide for application development under the Motif graphical user interface ( although it is compatible ) as it lacks Motif libraries . |
| 30 | The null result of fig. 4.5(b) is of theoretical significance as it helps rule out several possible explanations for the effect seen in fig. 4.5(a) . |